Douluo: The True Eye

Ideals are beautiful, reality is cruel. Before Xiao Xiao could show her skills, Huo Yuhao had already pinned her to the ground without even using hidden weapons.

After all, although the Three Lives Soul Calming Cauldron could be considered top-notch among weapon souls, Xiao Xiao had indeed put in a lot of hard work in training her martial soul.

However, with the Eye of Reality, Huo Yuhao could easily predict Xiao Xiao's every thought in battle, avoiding the attacks of Xiao Xiao's Three Lives Soul Calming Cauldron as if he could foresee the future. After getting close, with the help of the Eye of Reality,

Huo Yuhao knocked Xiao Xiao to the ground with a few punches and kicks, rendering her unable to fight back.

Until she was thrown to the ground by Huo Yuhao, Xiao Xiao was still in a daze, her face full of confusion.

Who am I, where am I, what happened?

"What's wrong, are you convinced? Do you want to try again?" Huo Yuhao looked at Xiao Xiao on the ground with a smile, extending his hand to help her up.

Hearing this, Xiao Xiao curled her lips and straightened her clothes. She wasn't stupid. Seeing Huo Yuhao's calm and relaxed appearance, it was obvious that he hadn't used his full strength, and she didn't want to continue embarrassing herself.

"Alright, let's disband here and go back to rest for a while, and prepare for the afternoon exam." Huo Yuhao said with a yawn.

And so, time quickly came to the afternoon, and Huo Yuhao, Wang Dong, and Xiao Xiao arrived at the Shrek Academy's assessment area.

"By the way, the opponents you'll face next should all be weak. Hold back a little and try to stall for time as much as possible. If there are any accidents, I'll step in," Huo Yuhao instructed Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao.

After all, the competition was a great opportunity for Huo Yuhao to spy on other people's soul skills. Huo Yuhao naturally wanted to seize the opportunity to allow his opponents to show more of their abilities, so that he could have more soul skill data to analyze.

Hearing this, Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao were both puzzled, looking at Huo Yuhao with doubtful expressions.

"Besides the new student enrollment and sparring at home, how many times have you two really fought? To put it bluntly, the new student assessment is just a battle between rookies. Accumulating more experience will help you become stronger later," Huo Yuhao casually made up a reason.

However, becoming stronger wasn't as simple as Huo Yuhao said. While combat experience was a part of it, it was more about deeply analyzing one's own abilities and the enemy's abilities, and ultimately weighing the strengths and weaknesses of both sides.

This was the real way for the weak to overcome the strong, or for the strong to ensure that they wouldn't capsize in the gutter due to carelessness.

And sufficient combat experience only allowed soul masters to develop a certain degree of combat instinct, so that they wouldn't be at a loss when facing unexpected situations. However, if they weren't good at summarizing experience, they wouldn't become much stronger in the end.

Soon, as they officially entered the assessment area, Huo Yuhao, Wang Dong, and Xiao Xiao were ready to face their only warm-up match opponents today.

This time, there were a total of 306 groups of students participating in the new student assessment, totaling 918 people. In the end, only 150 groups would be able to stay.

"Attention all new students, attention all new students, please immediately enter the assessment area to prepare for the new student assessment."

In the voice of the broadcast, with different moods, most of the students walked into the assessment area nervously, facing their opponents this time.

Huo Yuhao and the others were in the thirty-third district for this assessment, with a total of six groups of students.

A male teacher in his forties with ordinary looks looked at everyone with a smile and said: "Now that all the students have arrived, let me introduce myself first. I am your assessment teacher, my name is Wang Yan, and I am also your assessment teacher for the next two days."

Skipping the polite formalities, Wang Yan began to arrange for the first group of students to enter the assessment.

"First round, first match, New Student Class One: Wang Dong, Huo Yuhao, Xiao Xiao, New Student Class Three: Ouyang Junyi, Chen Junfeng, Zhao Haochen."

"You can enter the arena now, each in one corner. You can only release your martial souls after I say the match begins. Now, enter the arena."

The little fatty named Zhao Haochen from New Student Class Three looked ugly when he heard his opponents, and quickly introduced them to his two teammates.

"Damn, this is a bad start. The two guys on the opposite side are big shots who could beat the assessment seniors when they enrolled. We probably have no chance this time. Let's try to perform well."

"Go, go, go, don't be a jinx. We'll only know who's strong and who's weak after we fight."

"That's right, that's right, they're strong, but we're not weak either. Who can win is not certain!"

On the other hand, Ouyang Junyi and Chen Junfeng stood closer to protect the little fatty Zhao Haochen in front of them.

Seeing that both sides had adjusted their positions, Wang Yan said: "The assessment begins."

Both sides released their martial souls at the first moment, and Huo Yuhao took the lead, flicking the Twenty-Four Bridges of Bright Moonlight around his waist, and three locust stones hit the three opponents respectively.

Wang Dong directly spread the wings of the Butterfly of Light and rushed towards the three opponents at a rapid speed.

Three black cauldrons also floated in front of Xiao Xiao, ready to fight.

Just as Zhao Haochen was thinking about chanting his soul skill incantation, a locust stone hit his throat.

Although the locust stone was not very lethal, this attack made the little fatty swallow his words back down.

Also hit were Ouyang Junyi and Chen Junfeng, who were preparing to reach out to take the chicken leg. Because they were distracted by wanting to take the little fatty's chicken leg, their mouths were also hit directly by the locust stones thrown by Huo Yuhao.

Blood flowed out immediately, and they quickly swelled up.

Seeing the little fatty unable to speak for a while, and feeling the pain in their mouths, Ouyang Junyi and Chen Junfeng were immediately enraged. Ignoring the little fatty's big chicken leg support, they each used their soul skills to rush towards Wang Dong.

'Interesting, are they special recruits from the Tang Sect?' Wang Yan couldn't help but pay more attention to Huo Yuhao at this time.

'He's quite skilled in using hidden weapons. It's just, what is his martial soul? Judging from the appearance of the soul rings, it shows that his soul skills have already been used. An amplification-type soul skill?'

At this time, Ouyang Junyi and Chen Junfeng, these two agility-type soul masters, pounced on Wang Dong with anger, but anger could not make up for the gap in strength.

In terms of hard power, the gap between them and Wang Dong was still too great.

Moreover, with the support of Huo Yuhao in the rear, hidden weapons flew out from various blind spots. In order to avoid these hidden weapons or suffer less damage, these two agility-type soul masters had to slow down their advance.

This also gave Wang Dong an opportunity. His first soul skill, Winged Blades, attacked the two of them separately. At the same time, Huo Yuhao released two hidden weapons.

Seeing Wang Dong's attack, Ouyang Junyi decisively activated his first soul skill, transforming the sword-shaped spikes on his right arm into dozens of light and shadows that attacked Wang Dong.

At the same time, Chen Junfeng also coordinated by activating his first soul skill, slashing out sword beams with the short sword in his hand, aiming to strike Wang Dong.

However, at this moment, two hidden weapons came from nowhere, hitting their wrists. Immediately afterward, due to the pain, the soul skill attacks they launched were deformed, brushing past Wang Dong's body without causing any substantial damage.

'Alright, these two are both one-ring soul masters, there's nothing to see. But this hummingbird soul master's first soul skill isn't bad.' Huo Yuhao's eyes dimmed as he directly said to Wang Dong, "Alright, finish them off."

Hearing this, Wang Dong didn't hesitate. As the Winged Blades slashed down, Xiao Xiao's Three Lives Soul鎮 Cauldron followed, and with the vibration of soul power circles, the two agility-type soul masters collapsed powerlessly to the ground.

Seeing this situation, Wang Yan didn't waste any time and directly announced, "Class One's Wang Dong team wins this match."

Afterward, Wang Yan looked at Huo Yuhao and his teammates, feeling somewhat emotional. Hidden weapons were indeed worthy of being used by the Tang Sect, which was once famous on the continent. They were indeed exceptionally clever in the battles of low-level soul masters, giving them a great advantage.

'It's just a pity that the world has changed. The gap between hidden weapons and soul tools will only widen as time goes on. This is also the reason for the Tang Sect's decline. However, this child seems to have excellent insight and can always anticipate the enemy and strike at their vital points.'

'I'll observe more later. This team should be Zhou Yi's trump card. But indeed, at the level of soul masters and great soul masters, hidden weapons are still very useful, but their difficulty of use is too high, and few people specialize in training them.'

'And this child seems a little familiar. Oh right, I seem to have seen him in the library these past few months. He likes to read while cultivating, not bad, not bad.'

After the assessment, Huo Yuhao and his teammates didn't leave directly, but instead watched the other two matches. Then, Huo Yuhao said to Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao.

"We've gathered enough information. The next battles are meaningless. Let's just finish them quickly."

Looking at Huo Yuhao, who went back on his word, Wang Dong didn't know how to scold him for a moment, "You, you, you, didn't you just tell us to cultivate combat experience?"

"I was wrong, I was wrong. This level of competition is completely unnecessary. I'm going back to sleep." Huo Yuhao fled as if escaping, and Wang Dong chased after Huo Yuhao all the way.

'Well, I've seen enough. I'll go back and disassemble and combine the newly recorded soul skills to try them out.' Huo Yuhao thought as he ran. As for going back on his word? That's called adapting to the situation!

There were a total of four matches on the second day, facing the other four teams in the same district. However, with the suppression of Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao, two great soul masters, coupled with Huo Yuhao's tricky cooperation, they easily won all four battles.

And Wang Yan's gaze towards Huo Yuhao became increasingly fervent as he watched from the sidelines. 'Interesting, too interesting. Could this martial soul be a body martial soul?'

When Huo Yuhao activated his Spiritual Eye, only his eyes changed all over his body. As the assessment teacher who watched five matches, Wang Yan was naturally not blind. He could still notice such obvious changes.

'Body martial souls don't show their advantages when the soul power level is low. However, Huo Yuhao actually uses his martial soul with hidden weapons. This way, he can at least ensure sufficient combat power in the first thirty levels. Not bad, not bad, very thoughtful.'

After all, for most soul masters, the only things they trust are their own bodies and soul skills. Relying on hidden weapons or soul tools is looked down upon by soul masters.

However, Wang Yan's cultivation talent was not high, and he specialized in theory, so what he wanted to become most was a theoretical 'master' like Yu Xiaogang ten thousand years ago.

Now, seeing Huo Yuhao using hidden weapons, he suddenly felt like he was Yu Xiaogang meeting Tang San ten thousand years ago.

'It's just a pity, a body martial soul, and it looks good in all aspects. He should be valued in the academy, and I'm afraid it won't be my turn to teach him in all aspects.'

'But a body martial soul... I haven't seen it before. It would be great if I had the opportunity to study it.'

In this way, Huo Yuhao was targeted by Wang Yan without his knowledge. After all, with Wang Yan's fervent gaze, Huo Yuhao knew what he was thinking even without activating his Eye of Reality.

'It doesn't matter. Anyway, becoming a core disciple will give me access to more resources.'

'And currently, I can't get away under Tang Fozu's nose. I can only try to get the resources I can get. Now, I'll wait for the opportunity until Tang Fozu relaxes his vigilance, or until Yilai克斯 wakes up.'

Soon, the third day of the competition began, and this time Huo Yuhao and his teammates had to face a pair of sisters with hair martial souls, Lan Susu and Lan Luoluo, and the power-attack type great soul master Huang Chutian.

'Hair martial soul... This type also belongs to the category of body martial souls. Can I learn from it to transform my own body?'

'After all, I can also spy on the composition of martial souls. Moreover, body martial souls are different from ordinary beast martial souls or weapon martial souls. Can I create them artificially in the future, modifying my blood energy and the way soul power is constructed, so that they are compatible and complement my own martial soul?'

'To turn my own martial soul into a true 'body' martial soul?' Thinking like this, Huo Yuhao couldn't help but become more interested.

Wang Yan announced, "Alright, both teams have arrived. Since the Wang Dong team achieved the best results in this battle zone in the previous five rounds, they will be the seeded team in this area."

"According to the order of the competition, they will also be the first to compete. The first match of the sixth round in District 33, Class One's Wang Dong team versus Class Seven's Huang Chutian team, prepare to begin!"

After the two sides exchanged names, they stood in their respective positions. Huo Yuhao's side remained unchanged, still in the original order.

On the other side, Huang Chutian stood at the front, with Lan Susu and Lan Luoluo behind him.

Seeing that both sides were ready, Wang Yan announced, "The competition begins!"

With the two sides activating their martial souls, the battle was about to break out. Huo Yuhao did not throw hidden weapons at the beginning as he had done before, but instead waited and watched.